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Giovanni Battista della Porta. Lithograph by L. Aureli after Belloni.

Giovanni Battista della Porta. Line engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1682.

Giovanni Battista della Porta. Line engraving, 1688.

Giovanni Battista della Porta. Line engraving by P. Becceni after G. Bossi.

Giambattista della Porta mago e scienziato / [di] Luisa Muraro ; in appendice l'Indice della Taumatologia.

Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de J.B. Porta, gentilhomme napolitain / par D. [i.e. H.G. Duchesne].

Profilo di Giovan Battista Porta / [Guido Maria Piccinini].

Processus ... de auro potabili, novo paucisque adhuc cognito: cui quidam alii ex Basilii Valentini, Josephi Quercetani, Portae, et aliorum scriptis excerpti, cum commentariolis. Propter affinitatem ut adjungerentur, non in, consultum visum fuit / [Angelo Sala].

L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie ... / par M. Moreau.

Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (fennel) with seed-pods resembling the crest of a bird, and (below) a bird's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.

Phytognomonica Io. Baptistae Portae Neap. octo libris contenta. In qvibvs nova, facillimaqve affertur methodus, qua plantarum, animalium, metallorum, rerumque denique omnium ex prima extimae faciei inspectione quiuis abditas vires assequatur. Accedvnt ad haec confirmanda infinita propemodu selectiora secreta. Summo labore, temporis dispendio, & impensarum iactura vestigata, explorataq; cvm privilegio / [Giambattista della Porta].

Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant with spots resembling those of a fish, and (below) a fish. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.

Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (hound's tongue) with leaves resembling the tongue of a dog, and (below) a dog's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.

De distillatione libri IX. Quibus certa methodo, multiplicique artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuiuslibet mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfecte docetur.

Phytognomonica ... octo libris contenta. In quibus nova, facillimaque affertur methodus, qua plantarum, animalium, metallorum, rerumquedenique omnium ex prima extimae faciei inspectione quivis abditas vires assequatur. Accedunt ad haec confirmanda infinita propemodum selectiora secreta ... Nunc primùm ab innumeris mendis quibus passim Neapolitana editio scatebat, vindicata / [Giambattista della Porta].

Phytognomonica octo libris contenta.

La magie naturelle, ou, les secrets et miracles de la nature / J.-B. de Porta.

Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (arum) with seed-pods resembling the horn of a unicorn, and (below) a unicorn's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.

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De distillatione libri IX. Quibus certa methodo, multiplicique artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuiuslibet mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfecte docetur.

Phytognomonica octo libris contenta.

La magie naturelle, ou, les secrets et miracles de la nature / J.-B. de Porta.

Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (arum) with seed-pods resembling the horn of a unicorn, and (below) a unicorn's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.

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Giambattista della Porta

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De distillatione libri IX. Quibus certa methodo, multiplicique artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuiuslibet mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfecte docetur.

Phytognomonica octo libris contenta.

La magie naturelle, ou, les secrets et miracles de la nature / J.-B. de Porta.

Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (arum) with seed-pods resembling the horn of a unicorn, and (below) a unicorn's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.

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